Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:53:27 -0800 | From | David Hinds <> | Subject | Re: pre*-6 breaks PCMCIA again |
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On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 10:56:38PM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > Well the result of this is that for other architectures such as the > m68k; some people (can't remember the names off hand, sorry) have > started to implement driver for PCMCIA devices (mainly NE2K Ethernet > and 16c550 serial) totally independant of the existing PCMCIA > subsystem. Some of these drivers have now been included into the > standard kernel. > > I asume this is because these guys don't know about the current PCMCIA > code and where to get it. IMHO keeping PCMCIA out of the kernel is a > pain and I would prefer to see it go in together with the rest of the > strange bus architectures we support these days.
I have noticed the m68k "net/apne" driver. I don't know its history, but they're certainly aware of my package, because they've apparently copied parts of my header files (without attribution). The driver appears to support only a small subset of NE2000 compatible PCMCIA cards (maybe a subset of one).
As for other architectures, my PCMCIA package is already being used on the alpha and powerpc platforms.
-- Dave
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